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March 2022 2022

Numerous proposed bills across US limiting LGBT rights for minors

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 Catherine Anderson 0 Comments U.S., United States, Human Rights, LGBTQ+, Homophobia

On March 8, Florida’s legislature passed a bill banning the discussion of sexual orientation and gender expression in elementary school classrooms. According to The Associated Press, Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign the bill into law. If he does so, the legislation will go into effect on July 1, per ABC News. While the bill is officially titled “The Parental Rights in Education” bill, LGBT activists are calling it the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill, as, according to ABC News, they fear “it could act as a complete ban on the lessons on LGBTQ oppression, history and discussions about LGBTQ identities.”

2022 Africa

Attempted Coup in Guinea-Bissau Fails

February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 Catherine Anderson 0 Comments Africa, military coup, coup, Guinea-Bissau

According to Reuters, the attempted coup that took place on February 1 in Guinea-Bissau is the latest of more than a dozen coup attempts the West African nation has faced since gaining independence from Portugal in 1974. While President Umaro Sissico Embalo and his entire cabinet survived, Al Jazeera reports the coup resulted in at least 11 fatalities.

February 2022 2022 International News Americas

Honduras Swears in First Female President

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 Catherine Anderson 0 Comments South America, feminism, Honduras, election

After losing elections in 2013 and 2017, Xiomara Castro has officially been inaugurated as Honduras’s first female president, reports CNN. Castro first rose to political prominence in 2009, when she led a march through the nation’s capital demanding that her husband, former President Manuel Zelaya, be reinstated as president following a military coup. Castro, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist brings an end to 12 years of right-wing leadership, BBC News adds. At her inauguration, she emphasized that she seeks to “refound” the nation on “citizen values, ”The New York Times reports.

September 2021 Opinion

Booster Shots Unethically Exacerbate Global Vaccine Inequity

September 30, 2021February 14, 2022 Catherine Anderson 0 Comments Vaccines, COVID-19, pandemic, Delta Variant

It has been one year, six months, and a little over a week since March 13, 2020: the day that the flu-like illness called “coronavirus” suddenly brought the lives of every American to a screeching halt. The country waited nearly a full year for vaccines to become available yet, months after a nationwide vaccination campaign began, the crisis has morphed into a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” as The Guardian writes. Now, in light of the Delta variant and a slight waning immunity to COVID-19, there is talk of a third booster shot.